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DESCRIPTION:Workshop: Moral Theory and the Challenge of Future People\n\nTh
 e research team in Value Theory and the Philosophy of Public Policy at McG
 ill University will host a two-day workshop\, October 27-28\, 2023\, on th
 e moral challenge of future people\, broadly construed. We invite submissi
 ons of abstracts on any topic that deals with this challenge.\n\nInvited s
 peaker: Anja Karnein (Binghamton University\, SUNY)\n\nAs John Rawls once 
 remarked\, the question of justice between generations “subjects any ethic
 al theory to severe if not impossible tests”. One of the difficulties is\,
  of course\, to correctly determine what our duties of justice towards fut
 ure people are. But for social contract theory\, where justice is understo
 od as the fair terms of cooperation among the participants of a joint prac
 tice\, the more fundamental challenge is to make sense of the very idea of
  intergenerational cooperation. If justice requires some form or reciproca
 l cooperation\, can our duties to future people really be duties of justic
 e at all? Rather than a mere problem of extension\, the case of future peo
 ple puts the social contract approach as such into question.\n\nHowever\, 
 though modern moral philosophy has confirmed the severity of the challenge
 \, it has also shown that it goes well beyond the topic of intergeneration
 al justice. In particular\, the fact that our actions affect who will be b
 orn\, and how many people there will be\, raises deep questions for moral 
 theory as such. It has proven to be extremely difficult to find a normativ
 e theory that not only successfully deals with the non-identity problem\, 
 but at the same time also avoids implausible results such as the repugnant
  conclusion. Thus\, the challenge of future people not only raises difficu
 lt theoretical problems for the main approaches to moral theory – deontolo
 gical as well as teleological ones – but also puts many of our most deeply
  held intuitions into question. An appreciation of the moral significance 
 of future people may also lead to radical conclusions regarding what our m
 ost pressing political problems are\, and what we ought to do.\n\nRegistra
 tion: This workshop is open for everyone. But registration is required as 
 the space is limited. To register\, please send an email\, no later than O
 ctober 20\, to Emil Andersson: emil.andersson [at] mail.mcgill.ca\n\n \n\n
  \n
DTSTART:20231027T130000Z
DTEND:20231028T210000Z
LOCATION:CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2A7\, Seminar Room\, Bieler School of Env
 ironment\, 3534 Rue University
SUMMARY:Workshop: Moral Theory and the Challenge of Future People 
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/philosophy/channels/event/workshop-moral-theory-a
 nd-challenge-future-people-348270
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